Difluid Microbalance vs Skale 2 with Decent DE1

JHCCoffee

I have a Difluid Microbalance that is apparently compatible with the DE1.

How do I pair this scale?

Has anyone used this scale with the DE1? What was your experience?

The Difluid Cafe app controls many of the Microbalance functions. What happens when I pair the Microbalance with the Decent? Does the Decent control the various Microbalance functions and settings? Will there be conflicts?

I also have a Skale. But it is somewhat large. What are the benefits of using the Skale, vs other scales such as the Difluid Microbalance.

Thanks.

Ammonite

I may well be wrong but I believe the Difluid only works with the Despresso third party application for Decent Espresso Machines, not the original software created by Decent. You won’t be able to simultaneously pair the scale to both the decent tablet and the Difluid app so there can’t be interference, only one will control it at any time.

In my experience all compatible scales perform similarly, just a matter of preferred form.

JHCCoffee

Ammonite I may well be wrong but I believe the Difluid only works with the Despresso third party application for Decent Espresso Machines, not the original software created by Decent.

Thanks for the insight. Could you elaborate on the Despresso app? What does it do and what are its benefits? Would you have a link?

Just got my Decent, so I won’t be introducing any new apps right now. Just curious for the future.

Ammonite

JHCCoffee

The Despresso app is a truly native application available from the Play Store and App Store. It’s been created by independent people and written in a more modern language than the stock ‘app’ that Decent provide. In terms of functionality, it’s currently fairly similar to the Decent ‘app’. But the set up process on a new device is a lot more straightforward and it supports a few additional scales, also the Meater thermometer you can use for milk steaming. You can find the GitHub page with some information here: https://github.com/obiwan007/despresso as well as the app itself and a description on your app store.

It probably doesn’t make a huge difference to the end user but the Decent ‘app’ isn’t an actual app, it’s quite a workaround in an old programming language, but it doesn’t really matter if you don’t dig down into the guts of it.

I imagine in the future John or the community will support the Difluid scale for the Decent ‘app’.

How are you finding the Decent experience so far?

JHCCoffee

Ammonite How are you finding the Decent experience so far?

I’ve only had time to assemble it, get a rough handle on the interface and pull a couple of shots. Its a steep learning curve, but I’ll get there.

Did a couple of dumb things that I had to recover from, like going for too large a screen resolution, which then made the screen based controls inaccessible. Fortunately John anticipated or has encountered things like that and had pre-posted solutions in Basecamp.

I have some new user questions that I will post in a separate thread.